#Tag
did the important work of switching index buffers over from 16 bit indices to 32 bit indices in the unlikely but potentially possible case of a vertex buffer having more than 65k vertices in it
this change is invisible so have a screenshot of a cool hole
bonus video: generating new terrain at dawn with a visible chunk radius of 16
okay the block game site is live! https://enikofox.com/blockgame/
particularly proud of the feed of mastodon posts below the FAQ 😁 it handles images, video, gif, audio, and "unknown" media. and it even handles polls! :D
okay the block game site is live! https://enikofox.com/blockgame/
particularly proud of the feed of mastodon posts below the FAQ 😁 it handles images, video, gif, audio, and "unknown" media. and it even handles polls! :D
okay the block game site is live! https://enikofox.com/blockgame/
particularly proud of the feed of mastodon posts below the FAQ 😁 it handles images, video, gif, audio, and "unknown" media. and it even handles polls! :D
i still have some small optimizations to do to direct lighting and small bugs to fix (literal corner cases agghhh!! 😫) and i'll probably tweak the lighting colors and skybox a bit here and there but i'm considering the lighting system done now and i'm excited to move on to adding more *stuff* to the game
someone asked what the caves look like with the different light layers so in this post and a couple replies imma post screenshots from the same cave earlier with direct + indirect, direct only, and indirect only light
changed direct lighting in block game so it can be progressively performed over multiple frames, which means i can allot a fixed time budget per frame for it
shown here artificially slowed down and with indirect light hidden to show the process more clearly
i still have some small optimizations to do to direct lighting and small bugs to fix (literal corner cases agghhh!! 😫) and i'll probably tweak the lighting colors and skybox a bit here and there but i'm considering the lighting system done now and i'm excited to move on to adding more *stuff* to the game
just to be clear: this lighting doesn't use any realtime raytracing technology or gpu compute buffers or anything like that. in fact it doesn't use the gpu *at all*
you could have this lighting while running the game on a literal potato. i could run this on my 2012 laptop (that's my acceptable performance target)
changed direct lighting in block game so it can be progressively performed over multiple frames, which means i can allot a fixed time budget per frame for it
shown here artificially slowed down and with indirect light hidden to show the process more clearly
holy shit dude look at how much more dramatic caves look now when you stick a light in em!
just to be clear: this lighting doesn't use any realtime raytracing technology or gpu compute buffers or anything like that. in fact it doesn't use the gpu *at all*
you could have this lighting while running the game on a literal potato. i could run this on my 2012 laptop (that's my acceptable performance target)
holy shit dude look at how much more dramatic caves look now when you stick a light in em!
i probably won't add a similar system for sunlight because what i'll probably do is just add shadow mapping for the sun at some point. that way sun shadows can move throughout the day
then i'll have a full direct lighting + shadows + bounce light solution for block game :3
fixed the light bleed issue
so basically block game has faux global illumination now. i realized minecraft style lighting is kinda like bounce lighting, so i figured if i added shadow mapped direct lighting it'd look sorta like GI and i think it turned out real good!
you can see that both methods separately lack something, but when combined the scene feels pretty grounded :D
and here's a gif that cycles through the three lighting styles
okay that's much better 😊 there's some light bleed that i need to fix but i think i might know what's causing that
either way this is a good stopping point for the day
fixed the light bleed issue
so basically block game has faux global illumination now. i realized minecraft style lighting is kinda like bounce lighting, so i figured if i added shadow mapped direct lighting it'd look sorta like GI and i think it turned out real good!
you can see that both methods separately lack something, but when combined the scene feels pretty grounded :D
ok so adding direct lighting to block game is going really well 🥲
okay that's much better 😊 there's some light bleed that i need to fix but i think i might know what's causing that
either way this is a good stopping point for the day
omg i'm an idiot. i had a separate list of sky colors and sun strength scalars for the terrain to do the day night cycle
then i realized i could just convert the colors to HSL, and set the sun strength scalar based on the min, current, and max brightness of the sky colors
so `sun = (cur - min) / (max - min);`
did that and it works great :|
ok so adding direct lighting to block game is going really well 🥲
replaced the 100% faked day night cycle with a proper one. it's still a little barebones because it only changes the clear color but it's a lot better than a sine wave
omg i'm an idiot. i had a separate list of sky colors and sun strength scalars for the terrain to do the day night cycle
then i realized i could just convert the colors to HSL, and set the sun strength scalar based on the min, current, and max brightness of the sky colors
so `sun = (cur - min) / (max - min);`
did that and it works great :|
replaced the 100% faked day night cycle with a proper one. it's still a little barebones because it only changes the clear color but it's a lot better than a sine wave
You may say "Eniko this sounds like a tall order" and you'd be right but on the other hand I've been training for this for literally 30 years
I'm ready
People keep asking me where I intend to take block game, gameplay wise, and the very short answer is: minecrafty (highly item centric) sandbox rpg with a living world, like ultima or elder scrolls meets minecraft
A space for Bonfire maintainers and contributors to communicate
